DS1 hated tummy time, he started comano crawling at 10 months and proper at 13 or 14 months, walked at 21 months.
DS2 hates tummy time so much so when I put him down on tummy he is flipped over before i have stood straight up again!! He wants to sit up all the time and will happily sit up for ages. He has been rolling both ways from 4 months but very rarely rolls onto tummy.
Feeb, it's a good point, I think that she's going to be a baby that loves to just sit and watch the world. She LOVES to sit with us on the sofa and chat. LOL, too cute.
Kate, yeah - we do "tummy on mummy" and she loves that. Thinks it's really funny to try and suck my nose or chin
Last edited by MummaSue; September 29th, 2010 at 09:16 AM.
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DD1 HATED having tummy time, she wasn't even a fan of laying on her back and playing on the floor, she sat from 5mths and thats all she wanted to do.. at 10mths she just up and crawled, she never army crawled or rolled around the floor.
I did make sure she had tummy time every day (even if she didn't like it) even if it was just 2min with me trying to get her to smile.
DD2 is very similar, sat from 5.5mths, will lay on her back and play happily but HATES tummy time unless DD1 and i are both on our bellies looking like complete idiots.. i am hoping she will be like her big sister and just decide to up and crawl one day.
Haven't read all the responses but just wanted to say that tummy time is over rated in my honest opinion. Moo HATED tummy time, he would scream and cry so I didn't do it.
He was happy on his back so he spent a lot of time on the floor, just not on his tummy. Once he was able to roll he didn't seem to be so bothered by being on his tummy.
He never commando crawled - started 'properly' crawling at 6 months I think. Maybe 7 months I can't quite remember!
Yeah, I hate the feeling of pressure to put babies on their tummies. It was always one of the first things that the MCHN's asked me when I used to get her weighed a lot in the early days. And she HATED it with a passion then so I was a bit stressed about it all.
I just haven't really been bothering that much with it of late so wanted to ask what everyone thought.
Glad to hear that you guys agree with me - and yeah - overrated!!!!
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DS is pretty much the same, he hates tummy time because of his reflux and hasn't yet worked out how to consistently roll himself over yet so just lies there and screams! He likes it if i prop him up on DD's swim ring though, and its low enough that he can roll himself over off it. Another thing he loves playing on is one of those round blow up roller things, i put him on his tummy and roll him forward and back, and also do this with him on his back. Also, something i remember from DD doing gymbaroo (poor 2nd child never gets to do anything fun! LOL), was to do lots of different floor exercises like bicycle legs, arms round and round, crossing opposite foot to hand (this was supposed to be really good for crawling).
They absolutely will do it when they want to, DD has bad hip dysplasia so when she was around this age she went into a spica cast for 12 weeks (thick plaster which goes from under the armpits to ankles with her legs in a froggy position), even with the weight of the cast and being unable to move anything other than her arms she still managed to work out how to crawl in it!
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